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| Part of type specimen, proximal left humerus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Protostegidae |
| Genus: | †Cratochelone |
| Species: | †C. berneyi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cratochelone berneyi Longman, 1915
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Cratochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle in the family Protostegidae and containing a single species Cratochelone berneyi.[1] The species is known only from the mid to late Albian Toolebuc Formation, part of the Rolling Downs Group, in the Hughenden of Central northern Queensland, Australia.[1]
- ^ a b Kear, B. P. (2006). "Reassessment of Cratochelone berneyi Longman, 1915, a giant sea turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (3): 779–783. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[779:ROCBLA]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 140149175.